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Goodnight sun.
Red and green northern lights from bedroom window.
November 12, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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New polls from Gallup, YouGov, and out of Virginia show voters now trust Democrats more than Republicans to handle the economy. Nationally, Dems now have a 4-point margin on the issue — an 18-point shift away from Trump since 2023. Time to update your priors www.gelliottmorris.com/p/polls-show...
October 25, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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"Trump is doing absolutely awful in the minds of the American people. We're talking about new lows. CNBC, -13 net approval on the economy. It's -19 among Quinnipiac ... He's not just beating himself with record lows -- this is the lowest for any president ever."
October 25, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Vought's power only ends at Trump's gilt plans. Trump doesn't know what is going on, just listening to many "good" people. There is no such thing as negotiation at this point. Distrust and verify.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
October 24, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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We are all archivists.

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-23...
The commission will create an official public record of “[e]very instance of abuse, or law-breaking, or…violations of rights.” While “states have limited abilities against federal immunity,” Pritzker said, “we must remind everyone that…[t]here will come a time where people of good faith are empowered to uphold the law. When the time comes, Illinois will have the testimony and the records needed to pursue justice to its fullest extent.”
October 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Frogs and monarchs in Lake City, Man #NoKings
Frogs and monarchs, Lake City, MN #NoKing
October 18, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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#NOKINGS #LAKECITYMN
No Kings rally, Lake City MN
October 18, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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#NOKINGS
LAKECITYMN
October 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Sadly this is not the first time Ligorano/Reese have had to call our attention to the melting of democracy, but in 2008, it's hard to imagine they knew what would be happening less than 2 decades later. northern.lights.mn/projects/the...
On Labor Day, September 1, 2008, artist collaborators ligorano/reese installed a temporary ice sculpture spelling out the word Democracy on the grounds of the Minnesota State Capitol during the RNC for The UnConvention.
October 16, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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Worth fighting for.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
the ACA lowered the uninsurance rate from 16 to 8 percent, granting Medicaid to 20 million people and defraying costs for an additional 22 million as of this year. It also pushed expenses down overall. National health spending went from growing 6.9 percent a year before the law passed to 4.3 percent a year after. The share of the economy devoted to medical care stopped rising. The rate of inflation in the health-care sector slowed, even as Americans received more care. The Congressional Budget Office’s projections of future Medicare spending declined “dramatically.”
October 10, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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“What else could they do? Finstad‘s lack of response, and then his criticism of the protesters, tells me everything I need to know about his respect for our democracy.”

www.republicaneagle.com/opinion/fins...
Poster with missing Congressman headline and details and picture of Brad Finstad
September 12, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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“Their report is titled The Netanyahu Government Is Implementing a Plan to Ethnically Cleanse Gaza of Palestinians. America is Complicit. The World Must Stop It.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The senators documented arbitrary restrictions that have left aid groups unable to predict what will be denied entry. Jordanian officials told them that peanut butter, honey and dates had been suddenly banned from convoys, with entire trucks turned away for carrying a single restricted item. Each truck, the report says, is subject to a new $400 customs processing fee, and when the truck is not able to make it through the screening process, the $400 has to be paid again to join a later convoy. Because of those and other restrictions by the Israeli government, humanitarian aid coming in from Jordan was currently operating under 10% of its capacity, according to the report.
September 12, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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#madkingdrunkuncle
Whatever Trump’s actual thought process, the episode offers just one example of Trump’s failure to understand a problem but a willingness to nevertheless make a decision based on a conspiracy theory he has heard about, the uninformed speculation of one of his country club members or even just a whim grounded in nothing more than supreme confidence in his own “gut instinct.”
September 1, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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I found myself struck by the clarity of the final paragraph in the ICJ’s opinion, which reminds lawyers that climate change is bigger even than the law. “A complete solution to this daunting, and self-inflicted, problem requires the contribution of all fields of human knowledge, whether law, science, economics or any other,” the court wrote. “Above all, a lasting and satisfactory solution requires human will and wisdom—at the individual, social and political levels—to change our habits, comforts and current way of life in order to secure a future for ourselves and those who are yet to come.
August 21, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Maxwell Woody, lead author of the University of Michigan study, made the opposite case. Postal vehicles, he said, have low average speeds and a high number f stops and starts that enable regenerative braking. Routes average under 30 miles and are known in advance, making planning easier. "It's the perfect application for an electric vehicle," he said, "and it's a particularly inefficient application for an internal combustion engine vehicle."
August 17, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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August 17, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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August 17, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Silver-spotted Skipper enjoying some Purple loosestrife.
August 1, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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open.substack.com/pub/climatec...?
July 23, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Lake City, MN, population 5,240, showed up despite and because of the horror. #NoKings @maddow.msnbc.com
June 15, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Beware of DOGE #Rochester #MN
April 5, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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F-ELON
April 5, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Nero fiddled. Trump plays golf.
April 5, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Tariffs for Dummies. #Rochester #MN¹
April 5, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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👐 off
April 5, 2025 at 5:52 PM